Self-Monitoring of Behavior and Its Effect on Social Relationships

You only need to sit with a group of people for a while and watch them interact with each other to identify the differences between them. Some like to attract attention, while others prefer to stay in the background. There are those who put all their charm on show, modulate their voices, and are extremely demonstrative, and those who are more natural. This division of attitudes can be explained based on an interesting concept, that of self-monitoring. Self-monitoring can be defined as the degree to which a person adapts their behavior to their social context. In other words, the level…